NEW YORK NEW YORK – Another day of the walking around blahs. I got a nice multiple frame stitch on 86th street and a brick wall, but that’s about all.
Day 2198 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 1833): Subway art
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Not much going on today. I shot around the Upper East Side. Today’s image is from my Leica Monochrom and 50mm Summicron lens, four frames stitched.
Day 2197 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day four years ago (day 736): Public Library
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Shooting today with my Leica Monochrom and a very wide lens, the lovely Carl Zeiss 15mm ZM lens.
Day 2195 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day four years ago (day 734): Old Equitable Building.
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Really good light in the alley behind 1185 Park, Captured with my Leica Monochrom and 50mm APO Summichron. Later in the day in Warren: same camera with the lovely 28mm Elmar lens.
Day 2193 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day six years ago (day 2): Remember the recession?
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Tax return day for the multitude of people like me who don’t get it together to file tax returns by April 15 and file extensions. This means that I’m cranky and out of sorts and not very well in tune with my visual surroundings. But of course I took some pictures anyway with my typical (for me) Leica Monochrom rig.
Day 2191 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 1461): Schloss Elmau
NEW YORK NEW YORK – Not much going on today. A few images from the sidewalks of New York from my Leica Monochrom and Luxocron lens.
Day 2190 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day last year (day 1826): Skyline Drive, Virginia
NEW YORK NEW YORK – I found myself on Fifth Avenue early this evening with my Leica Monochrom and a 50 mm Summicron Asph. lens. Those of you who follow this site know that I’m usually a wide angle shooter and of course the 50mm is not a wide angle lens.
I get wide images with a norma focal length lens by shooting multiple overlapping frames and stitching them in Photoshop. I typically shoot three, four or six frames. This gives me very large, very good files to work with, so I can make perspective changes without unacceptable quality loss. In effect this technique turns the 50mm into a wide angle zoom. Good technique is important: all frames have to be exposed consistently and a single mistake in one frame ruins the whole image.
I don’t use a tripod, even at night. I brace against a street light or other structure and take advantage of the Leica lens’s good wide open performance and the camera’s good high ISO performance.
Here you go. The third image, by the way, is an iPhone shot of a platinum print of an image taken in May 2010. This was a three frame stitch of images taken with a smaller-sensor camera, a Leica M8.2
Day 2189 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
On this day two years ago (day 1459): Schloss Elmau. Taken with the same camera and lens combination (Leica Monochrom + 50mm Asph. Summiocron).
